Robert James Brooks was arraigned in Muskegon County 60th District Court before Judge Harold F. Closz III on two felonies: obstruction of justice, a five-year felony; and resisting and obstructing officers, a two-year felony.

Brooks was also arraigned as a fourth-time habitual offender which increases the maximum possible sentence for the five-year felony to a life sentence if he’s convicted.

His habitual offender status also increases the penalty of the two-year felony to a 15-year felony, the judge said.

The judge ordered a court-appointed attorney for Brooks and continued a $500,000 cash or surety bond. A preliminary examination is slated for 10 a.m. on Dec. 5.

Brooks, who was believed to be armed during an early-morning standoff Monday at a home in the 2300 block of West Sherman Boulevard, won’t be charged with a weapons offense because it was determined the gun in his possession was a toy gun, authorities said.

Brooks was also in court on Wednesday for some sort of domestic issue. It wasn’t clear if that case involves the same woman inside the home Monday where Brooks refused to cooperate with authorities.

Police were initially told by a third party that Brooks had assaulted the woman inside the home around 2:30 a.m. with a weapon.

By 5 a.m. Michigan State Police officials were called to the scene, believing the man still had an actual weapon, and attempted to coax Brooks out of the home. When Brooks refused, armed State Police officials staged outside the home in an armored vehicle.

Police standoff in Muskegon ends peacefullyA standoff with police ended peacefully on the morning of November 19, 2012 in Muskegon at the home next door to the Super Stop Party Store near the corner of Sherman Boulevard and Lincoln Street.